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Two Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites lost in failure of Europe's Vega C rocket

The final two spacecraft in Airbus's four-satellite, 600 million-euro commercial Pléiades Neo Earth observation fleet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch from French Guiana Tuesday night, falling victim to a failure of a European Vega ...

NASA's Mars InSight lander ends mission after losing power

"We've actually been able to do a whole lot more than what we claimed and promised to do," Bruce Banerdt, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and principal investigator of the InSight mission, told Space.com ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover just dropped its 1st sample on the Martian surface

This tube is a backup depot, however; Perseverance collects twin samples at each location and its mission calls for it to do the delivery itself, using the set of caches inside the rover. But if necessary, the helicopters could be called upon to pick up ...

NASA's InSight lander bows out after ground-shaking Mars mission

Dust-laden solar panels and darker Martian skies have finally sealed the fate of NASA's InSight mission, the agency announced Wednesday, after the intrepid lander delivered its final message from Mars at the end of its history-making mission to reveal ...

We could build space cities in asteroids like in sci-fi with this wild concept

The wild asteroid concept would see far-future humans gather up rock rubble in a massive bag made of nanofiber mesh, allowing future astronauts to build a habitat inside the loose asteroid bits as the rocks spin in space.

Russian space debris forces space station to dodge, cancels US spacewalk

NASA has called off a planned spacewalk at the last moment after a large piece of Russian space debris came dangerously close to the orbital outpost. NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada were getting ready ...

NASA's InSight Mission Dies After 4 Years of Listening for Marsquakes

The New York Times

The New York Times

After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because of Martian dust covering its solar panels. Send any friend ...

Look up to the sky for the last meteor shower of the year

CNN

CNN

A gift from the skies is coming just in time for the holidays — the Ursids meteor shower. This celestial event will be the last meteor shower of 2022. The Ursids typically produce only around five to 10 visible meteors an hour, according to EarthSky.

James Webb Space Telescope back to science operations after glitch

"The observatory and instruments are all in good health, and were not in any danger while Webb's onboard fault management system worked as expected to keep the hardware safe," NASA officials wrote.

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Palau's Rock Islands harbor heat-resistant corals

Phys.Org

Ocean warming is driving an increase in the frequency and severity of marine heatwaves, causing untold damage to coral reefs. Tropical corals, which live in symbiosis with tiny single-celled algae, are sensitive to high temperatures, and exhibit a ...